Play and the politics of reading : the social uses of modernist form /
Armstrong, Paul B.,1949-
Ithaca, N.Y. ; London : Cornell University Press,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-202) and index.
1: Theory -- The politics of reading: nonconsensual reciprocity and the negotiation of differences -- Play, power, and difference: the social implications of Iser's aesthetic theory -- Being "out of place": Edward Said and the contradictions of cultural differences -- 2: Criticism -- Art and the construction of community in "the death of the lion" -- Historicizing Conrad: temporal form and the politics of reading -- Misogyny and the ethics of reading: the problem of Conrad's chance -- Liberalism and the politics of form: the ambiguous narrative voice in Howards end -- Reading India: the double turns of Forster's pragmatism -- James Joyce and the politics of reading: power, belief, and justice in Ulysses -- Pedagogical postscript: liberal education, the English major, and pluralistic literacy.
English fiction
Literature and society
Books and reading
Literary form
Modernism (Literature)